Cannot rebuild from src.rpm

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 22:19 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I am trying to rebuild a rpm from its src.rpm, but getting the following error:
> 
> $ rpmbuild --clean --rebuild myp-devel-0.14-0.src.rpm
> Installing myp-devel-0.14-0.src.rpm
> warning: user stewart does not exist - using root
> warning: group stewart does not exist - using root
> warning: user stewart does not exist - using root
> warning: group stewart does not exist - using root
> error: File /home/paulus/rpm/SOURCES # Where the tarballs and patches
> go./myp-devel-%{PACKAGE_VERSION}-%{PACKAGE_RELEASE}.tar.gz: No such
> file or directory
> $
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul
I don't understand the advice from others. If you look at man rpmbuild
you will see it is applies to spec files or tarfiles In your caswwe
before you apply rpmbuild you would have to turn you src rpm into a spec
file by executing: rpm -i myp-devel-0.14-0.src.rpm

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